I mean, based on past history.
Bill Clinton did not earn only $35,000 as Governor. His expenses were often paid out of various state funds, including a $51,000 “food allowance” and a $19,000 “public relations” fund, never claimed as income.
Hillary Clinton’s aggressive tax deductions, included $1,000 to more than $2,300 a year for used clothing donations. Hillary annually gave bags of used clothes to Goodwill and the Salvation Army. Taking time from her arduous schedule, she personally catalogued each piece and its value, such as $10 each pair for Bill’s old running shoes, $3 for Bill’s used undershirts and $1 a pair for Bill and Chelsea’s underwear.
Despite Bill Clinton’s siding with “those who work hard and play by the rules,” While the President threw nominees overboard for not paying taxes on nannies, the Clintons never paid taxes in 1980 on
their state-funded nanny, Dessie Sanders. In 1981 and 1982, when
Clinton was out of office, they claimed a child care exemption for
Sanders’ services, but still didn’t pay any Social Security taxes for her.
A 1981 audit showed that Chelsea’s nanny, Dessie Sanders, was
employed at the governors’ mansion from the time of Chelsea’s birth to
the time Clinton left office. The State of Arkansas does not pay for
nannies, so Governor Clinton had Dessie Sanders listed on the payroll as
a security guard.
Helen Dickey (also known as ‘a white house aide’, a title that put her on the government payroll) was one of Chelsea’s nannies in the white house but Becky Brown and Dessie Sanders raised Chelsea for the biggest part of her life.
Becky Brown was on the payroll as an ‘assistant administrator’ in the governor’s mansion. In reality, she was Chelsea Clinton’s nanny, but the formal title meant that her salary could be paid by the state, thus landing the taxpayers of Arkansas with the financial liability for bringing up Chelsea. The Clintons even managed to claim tax relief for the statefunded nanny.
The Clintons also have a history of what they call “oversights” when it comes to their taxes.
One example:
In 1994 The Clintons paid the Internal Revenue Service and the Arkansas state government $14,615 in back taxes and interest, after failing to report profits from a commodities-trading venture to the IRS. They said it was simply a mistake, an “oversight”.
How greedy and trashy can a person get?
If you want links, there are 13,300 to choose from here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clinton+personal+tax+deductions+underwear
For the verification on the nannies, just google their names plus words like ‘nanny’, ‘Clinton’, ‘Chelsea’, ‘tax’, etcetera.
Hmm, I have no idea why the copy/paste was all choppy up there in the middle…Weird.
@Benedict: This is more than dishonest. It’s just so greedy. They had more than enough money to raise one child, but they made taxpayers pay for her entire childhood. Then they claimed tax relief for it in addition to that. And deducting for used underwear? Who else would DO that? Even if it wasn’t ALL fraud, it’s still just so….wrong.
@Carl: Don’t you think it gives some idea of what type of people they are? Don’t you want to know what type of person you might be electing?
I honestly never cared much for the Clintons because of all the shady things they have been involved in, and the fact that many of their friends and business partners are felons, but I seriously had no idea they were this low-class…..This is just trashy.
And they called Paula Jones “trash”. I bet Jones doesn’t deduct income tax for used underwear. I have never heard of anything like that before.
@Heidi: I agree, Chelsea’s nannies were good people. That truly turned out to be to Chelsea’s benefit. I think Chelsea turned out pretty well, and she’s a very nice person. Not like Hillary or Bill at all.
No GC, they’ve seen all of this. It’s old news now, I just happened to find it while looking up inclusions in transparency laws, one thing led to another. There are literally thousands of links that verify these things. But, the Clintons have ALWAYS managed to get away with their activities, well except for being fined for these tax discrepencies. What do you think “Teflon President” means?
I’m betting they find a way out of their upcoming fraud trial, too. I honestly believe that they won’t be charged.
OH, here’s over 600 links for their “oversight” too:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2414%2C615+clintons